Jack Freer Contributing Writer I love The College of Wooster, and like many students, I am heavily involved on campus. I am an active member in four organizations and work two student jobs in fundraising and departmental assistance. In the last week, there has been …
Viewpoints
The Viewpoints page features the opinions of the campus community. Viewpoints articles should be 350-700 words and be about any opinion, funny or serious, about campus or the world around us. Submissions exceeding 700 words will be condensed to fit within this word limit in the print editions, the uncondensed version will be published in its entirety digitally. Letters to the Editor, which also are on our page, should be no more than 150 words, usually responding to articles either in Viewpoints or elsewhere in the paper.
Those who wish to submit a Viewpoint can do so by emailing mpillai27@wooster.edu and pgrzybowski30@wooster.edu.
CoW Is Not a Corporation, But If They Insist It Is, Then…
Daimys Ester García Contributing Writer Administration has excused their lack of transparency, blatant disregard for shared governance and recent mass firings by likening the College to a corporation. However, treating the College like a corporation empties the educational mission of any meaning, replacing it with …
Firings Leave Campus and Credibility in Tatters
Denise Bostdorff Contributing Writer I don’t think anyone wants to fire people, and it’s true that the College is under enormous financial pressures. That said, last week’s firings were extremely problematic. The president did nothing to prepare people for what was coming. In fact, at …
Community Matters
Danielle Libby Contributing Writer I want to start this piece with a story that has a connection to today. Four years ago, as a senior in high school, I spoke at a school board meeting in protest of a policy. After that meeting, I thought …
A statement from the Voice staff
We here at The Wooster Voice are deeply disturbed by the recent layoffs and the manner in which they occurred. We stand with all staff and faculty who have been impacted by the recent campus transition. Our staff recognizes the pain this has caused to …
Bring back woke
Nemsie Gonzalez Editor-in-Chief I have seen online many people calling for the end of “wokeism” and the soft liberal left, but for me and many of my friends, we are struggling to remember when the last time people were actually woke; I’m particularly thinking about …
